. The Ninth New York heavy artillery. A history of its organization, services in the defenses of Washington, marches, camps, battles, and muster-out ... and a complete roster of the regiment . they got it,for five cannon, fifteen flags and 2,000 prisoners attested thesuccess of the day. A hot presidential contest was in progress,and this victory was worth whole tons of campaign literatureto the side that was supporting Abraham Lincoln. How it struck the Confederates themselves appears in thefollowing wail taken from the diary of a wounded prisoner,confined in Winchester: I never saw troops in
. The Ninth New York heavy artillery. A history of its organization, services in the defenses of Washington, marches, camps, battles, and muster-out ... and a complete roster of the regiment . they got it,for five cannon, fifteen flags and 2,000 prisoners attested thesuccess of the day. A hot presidential contest was in progress,and this victory was worth whole tons of campaign literatureto the side that was supporting Abraham Lincoln. How it struck the Confederates themselves appears in thefollowing wail taken from the diary of a wounded prisoner,confined in Winchester: I never saw troops in such confusionbefore. Night found Sheridans hosts in full and exultantpossession of much-abused, beloved Winchester. The hotel hos-pital was pretty full of desperately wounded and dying Confed-erates. The entire building was shrouded in darkness duringthe dreadful night. Sleep was impossible, as the groans, sighs,shrieks, prayers and oaths of the wretched sufferers, combinedwith my own severe pain, banished all thoughts of rest. . .Our scattered troops, closely followed by the large array ofpursuers, retreated rapidly and in disorder through the was a sad, humiliating FORD OF THE OPEQUON. THE VALLEY AND WINCHESTER. 155 During the remaining months of the war, the Confederatesnever saw the lower valley in force again. They were confined,closer and closer, to the ways leading to Richmond. Mosebyand his men still harried both friend and foe, but no organizedfront was again presented north of Middletown. An early start is made on the 20th, and the rebels are fol-lowed swiftly through the valley towns to the hill just south ofStrasburg. So rapid is the pace that men fall out, orders tothe contrary notwithstanding. Some companies of the regi-ment are almost nil when in the afternoon we go into 3d Division is in the advance, so near to the rebel signal-station on Three-top mountain that though out of range ofball or bullet, the enemy can easily see our every mo
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